A few days ago I ran across an interesting device in a local electronic store. Finally it is time when such device arrived at our lives with satisfying performance for an affordable price. I found that buying it as a new PDA/phone accessory would be worth considering. It is an ultra-mobile (size: 2.0×0.9×4.5″, weight: 5.6 …
Category Archive: Mobile phone
Apr
15
Using voice to tag digital photographs on the spot: seeking participants
Have you ever wanted to tag photographs immediately upon capture? Your answer to this question is probably twofold: (1) Yes I have; it would seem to be more convenient. (2) No I have not; text entry on a mobile device is a difficult process. Now, what if I told you that we’ve developed an application …
Feb
10
Image Processing for Intelligent User Interfaces at IUI'09
Trevor Darrell a distinguished professor from UC Berkeley gave a very interesting invited talk yesterday at IUI’09 on the role of image processing in making user interfaces more intelligent. He elaborated on the state-of-the-art of image recognition. There are essentially two categories of this field: 1) instance level recognition and 2) category level retrieval. The …
Jan
26
DFT Driving Challenge
So apparently in the UK the Department of Transportation is called the Department for Transportation. This means that the acronym is DFT, which is confusing because DFT of course stands for Discrete Fourier Transform. So the question is, when transportation becomes fast in the UK will the DFT become the FFT? OK a little geeky …
Jan
13
Cell phones and driving
Are you using your cell phone while driving? The National Safety Council says you shouldn’t. Of course, cell phones are just one of the distractions in a car. The NSC recently hosted the International Symposium on Distracted Driving. There are many interesting presentations to review on the symposium website. I really liked Paul Green‘s presentation (especially …
Jan
10
Microsoft Tag – 2D barcodes for consumer products and services
Microsoft has just introduced a 2D barcode readable by a freely available cell phone application. Read more on the Tag website (they also have a cool video although the ending is cheesy). With the proliferation of camera phones this seems like a nice way to introduce object tagging. We’ve heard a lot about RFID, but …